I haven't been here in ages, mostly because I've been playing around with the game library Gosu for the Ruby programming language. That said, I'm in the mood for some Löve again. I've come to ask about what is likely the bane of my entire existence in game development: collision detection and resolu...

Well, I just switched to newWorld(-w, -h, w, h) and my game is working now. I guess I'll just leave it now since I'm too lazy to figure out how it turned out that my world has always been four times bigger than I thought.

But if the parameters are (x1, y1, x2, y2), wouldn't (-w,-h, w,h) give you double width and height?

Just so you have more context, originally I was calling love.physics.newWorld(width, height). This was causing a regular Löve error, so I changed it to love.physics.newWorld(0, 0, width, height), which was when the other error started happening whenever I try to run my game.

There's something with the physics engine on Mac OS X (10.6.5). I changed a line where I create a physics world to use the new (x1, y1, x2, y2) syntax, and now I get Mac's error report dialog. Process: love [286] Path: /Applications/love.app/Contents/MacOS/love Identifier: org.love2d.love Version: ?...

Eventually I need to put in a proper key configuration screen.

But right now I want to, among other things, figure out what's the best way to make the enemy ship move to dodge the player's shots.

Many of you already know about these, but...

Anything in particular making the controls weird? Is it the movement keys, the mouse, or the two together?

The grey ship doesn't actually move or shoot. It just turns and faces you.

Throws up hands
Yeah, well, I'm still not using dt.